Among the noted citizen of Clark, was the late venerable HUBBARD TAYLOR.
he emigrated to the county at a very early period, was a senator for a
number of years in the Kentucky legislature, and on several occasions
was chosen as one of the presidential electors. He was disginguished
for is patriotism, his hospitality and public spirit. He died in the
year 1842, beloved and mourned by all who knew him.

Col. George Taylor (who died in 1792) married Rachel Gibson. Their son,
Jonathan Taylor, married Ann Berry and had George T., who married Sarah
Fishback and owned "Basin Springs," Clark County, Kentucky. The latter's
son, Robert Stuart Taylor, bought out the other heirs. He married first
Nancy Huston and had: Sallie, married Robert Cunningham, Anna married
Squire Tevis of Clark County, Kentucky. Robert Stuart Taylor married
second Bettie B. Thompson (a descendant of Col. William Thompson, an
officer of the English army, whose daughter Martha married James Taylor),
and had R. Stuart Taylor, married Ettie Jones; Dr. Thompson J. Taylor,
married Quinn; Bettie Martin Taylor, married Joe G. Lyle; Mary Betts;
George William Taylor, married J. V. Logan; T. Graham Taylor.
The children of R. Stuart Taylor and Ettie Jones are: Roger, Robert S.,
Jr., Ettie, Walter, Lucy; live near Pine Grove, Kentucky.
The children of Dr. T. J. Taylor and Mollie Quinn are Robert S., Bettie
Murphy, Thompson, Quinn, live at Richmond, Kentucky.
Bettie Martin Taylor and Joe G. Lyle, of Pine Grove have: Taylor, Lyle,
Elizabeth Thompson, Josephine, Tevis Lyle, Virginie Cooper Lyle.
George William Taylor and Mary McCord Taylor of Great Falls, Mont. have:
McCord Taylor, Elizabeth and Mildred.
Jessie Taylor and J. V. Logan of Orange County, Fla. have Elizabeth
Thompson Logan.
Graham Taylor lives in Clark County, Kentucky.
Robert S. Taylor, Sr. died at Basin Springs, December, 1886. The place is
so called for the spring, which is in a great rock, shaped like a basin.
Has never gone dry.
Hubbard Taylor was early surveyor of Kentucky. He married Clarissa Milnor
and their son, Hubbard Minor Taylor married Mary Ann Arnold, and his son
Thomas Arnold Taylor married Sarah A. Thompson (a descendant of Col.
William Thompson of the English Army and sister of Mrs. Robert S. Taylor,
Sr.) and had Zilpha Taylor who married William S. Smith of Danville,
Kentucky who has Hugh Smith, Ernest, Herford and Zilpha, Jr.
Thomas Arnold Taylor and Sarah A. Thompson had: Mamie married L. P.
Schultz, Hattie M. married William H. Lynch, Lillian married Henry Wood.
Mamie B. and L. P. Schultz of Sykesville, Mo. have Lillian Louise Schultz.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynch live in Indianapolis, Mrs. [sic] and Mrs. Wood in
Cincinnati. Thomas Arnold Taylor died January, 1887.

Colonel WILLIAM SUDDARTH, was one of the earliest settlers in Clark
county, and the last surviving member of the convention which framed the
present constitution of Kentucky. He was a gallant soldier under Wayne
in the campaign of 1793. For thirty years he was the county surveyor of
Clark. He was a man of intelligence, with the manners of an accomplish
gentleman. He died at the residence of one of his sons in Bath county,
in the year 1845, having nearly attained his eightieth years.

LEROY D. STONE is a native of Clark County, Ky., where he was born March
6, 1827, the fifth of seven children of William and Nancy (Oliver) Stone.
The parents were natives of Kentucky, and came to Indiana in 1831,
locating first in Jennings County, but two years later coming to this
county (Orange County, Indiana), where they lived well known and highly
respected until their deaths. The father's death occurred August 30,
1840, and the mother's, November 15, 1869. While yet a boy, Leroy learned
the cabinet trade at Paoli, under Henry Miller, and in 1855 he engaged in
that business in Montgomery County, contining until 1869, then moving to
Kansas, where he engaged in farming about nine years. He then returned to
Montgomery County, and soon afterward to this county, where he yet is
(Orangeville Township). January 7, 1856, he married Mahala J. Durham, and
eight of their nine children are living: Charles B., Mary, who married
Frederick Geiger; Cora L., the wife of William Porter; Kate D., Joseph H.,
Frank, Albert and Harry. Mr. Stone is a stanch Republican and he and wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

JAMES SIMPSON, judge of the court of appeals of Kentucky, and one of the
most distinguished jurists that the state has produced, was born March
16, 1796, in Belfast, Ireland, and died on the 1st of May, 1876, in
Winchester, Kentucky. His father, James Simpson Sr., a man of classical
education and broad mental culture, became a minister of the Presbyterian
church and was also an educator of note. On account of political
complication he was obliged to flee from Ireland, and embarked for America
with his wife and family when the future chief justice was but eighteen
months old. As he stood on the deck of the vessel which was to bear him
to freedom and future prosperity, the last sight which met his gaze was
his old home in flames, enkindled by the hands of his enemies! The vessel
on which he embarked bore him in safety to the shores of the new world,
and he took up his residence in Pittsburg [sic], Pennsylvania, where he
remained for about ten years. During that time his wife died. With his
children he removed to Clark county, Kentucky, and from that time on
Judge Simpson was a resident of this state.
James Simpson attended the common schools, but the greater part of
his education was acquired under the direction of his father, who was
well fitted to train the young mind and shape its habits of thought. The
son was of a very studious disposition, and his eager desire for
knowledge, supplemented by a retentive memory, enabled him to acquire a
fund of information far in advance of many who had much superior school
privileges. He read the Latin classics in the original and was well
informed on all subjects now usually embraced in the high school course.
He was ambitious, and with one object in view pursued his course from
the earliest days of his intellectual development to fit himself for the
practice of law.
On the 18th of February, 1817, before attaining his majority, he
applied to the county court for a certificate showing him to be "a person
of honesty, probity and good demeanor," which was granted him, and
immediately after reaching the legal age, at the first term of the circuit
court, he procured a license to practice law. He had read and studied
under the masterful guidance of Hon. Samuel Hanson, and his preparation for
the bar was so thorough and complete that at the first term of court, after
he joined the legal fraternity, he appeared as attorney in a number of
cases. For ten years he was associated in practice with Hon. Chilton
Allen, and almost from the beginning of his professional career he had an
extensive clientage. He was a man evidently marked out for greatness, and
his career was one unbroken series of splendid successes. His fitness for
political honors and his ability to meet the weighty questions which
affect the welfare of the commonwealth led to his being elected twice to
the general assembly of the commonwealth, where he was one of the leading
members on the floor of the house. In 1860, on account of the gravity
of the political situation growing out of the secession movement, he was
elected to the state senate. He served one term in that body during those
exciting days, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the
state remained in the Union, and he cast her influence with that side.
Except as a representative in the lower house and in the senate of
Kentucky, he held no political office. In 1835 he was appointed judge of
the circuit court to succeed the Hon. Richard French, occupying the
circuit court bench until 1847. His course was such as to add honor and
dignity to the office with which he was honored, and he won the confidence
of the bar and the public by his upright and unflinching administration of
justice and the wisdom of his decisions.
The masterful ability of Judge Simpson insured him still further
honors, and in 1847 he received an appointment to the highest judicial
body of the state, being made associate justice of the court of appeals.
He served thus until the adoption of the new state constitution in 1850
and thereafter was one of the four justices of the new court and filled
the exalted position of chief justice of the court for two years. In
1852 he was elected to the supreme bench for another term of eight years,
during which time he again served for two years as chief justice. On the
expiration of his term in 1860 he declined to enter on a political
contest for re-election, being conscientiously opposed to making judicial
office a football of party prejudice or favor. Devotedly attached to his
profession, systematic and methodical in habit, sober and discreet in
judgment, calm in temper, diligent in research, conscientious in the
discharge of every duty, courteous and kind in demeanor and inflexibly
just on all occasions, the qualities enabled Judge Simpson to take first
rank among those who have held the highest judicial office in the state,
and made him the conservator of that justice wherein is the safeguard of
individual liberty and happiness and the defense of our national
institution. His reported opinions are monuments to his profound legal
learning and superior ability, more lasting than brass or marble and more
honorable than battles fought and won. They show a thorough mastery of the
questions involved, a rare simplicity of style and an admirable terseness
and clearness in the statement of the principles upon which the opinions
rest. He fully comprehended and carried into practice Justinian's noble
summary of the law's precepts: "Juris precepta sunt haec: honeste rivere,
alternum non cadere suum emque tribuere." No judge of the court of
appeals has evinced a clearer knowledge, a livelier conscience, a more
industrious application than Judge Simpson.
On the 22d of November, 1840, the Judge united with the Presbyterian
church, and in 1836 became an elder in the same. He exemplified in his
life that Christian spirit which ennobles those who truly follow in the
footsteps of the lowly Nazarene, and endears them to their fellow men.
His sage counsel, noble example and devotion to the best interests of
the church make him a pillar of strength in upholding all that is best in
life, and he breathed his last with a smile of infinite peace and content
stamped upon his face, saying, "The door is open; I must go in."
In early life Judge Simpson gave his political support to the Whig
party, and on it dissolution became a Democrat, while during the war he
was a conservative Unionist, but after the war was identified with the
Democratic party until his death. He, however, took but little part in
politics, aside from voting and lending his influence to the measures best
calculated to enhance the best interests of his city, county and state.
On the 22d of February, 1825, Judge Simpson was united in marriage
to Miss Mary L. Caldwell, a daughter of Robert and Fanny (Irvine) Caldwell.
The latter was a daughter of Colonel Christopher Irvine, of Richmond,
Kentucky, and his wife was a daughter of Colonel Richard Calloway, and one
of the three girls who were in the fort at Boonesboro with Daniel Boone in
the early days of Kentucky's history. They were captured by the Indians,
but after three days were recaptured. Robert Caldwell was an own cousin
of John Caldwell Calhoun, the distinguished South Carolina statesman.
Judge Simpson died at his home in Winchester, Kentucky, on the 1st day of
May, 1876, in the eighty-first year of his age. At his death Judge
Simpson left two sons and three daughters, the latter being Fanny I.,
who married Samuel F. Taylor and is now Mrs. Bottaile; Mary H., wife of
James T. Thornton, of Kansas City, Missouri; and Carrie, wife of John A.
Mills, of Winchester. The sons are Isaac P., a lawyer of San Antonio,
Texas; and James D., a member of the Clark county bar, cashier of the
Citizens' National Bank and president of the Safety Building and Loan
Association of Winchester. For a number of years he was engaged in active
practice, but for the past twenty years has devoted his attention to other
business pursuits.
On the death of Judge Simpson many resolutions were passed, indicating
the high respect and honor in which he was held throughout the state, and
the sincere grief that was felt at his demise. The court of appeals
assembled in Frankfort, May 4, 1876, to take action thereon, and the
resolutions which they passed included the following:
"Resolved, That in the death of Judge Simpson the profession of
which he was an ornament has lost one who was an upright judge, an able
jurist and a zealous advocate. Society has been deprived of one of its
purest members and his family of a devoted and exemplary head."
At the meeting of the bar of Winchester, over which presided General
John B. Huston, the following resolutions were passed:
"Resolved, That as a member of the legal profession he illustrated
in his long, successful career the noblest qualities in rarest
combination; always true to his trusts, and competent to his task, kind
and courteous to his associates, ever ready to help those beneath him
on the ladder, and to give to them freely of his great abundance.
"That in his long and distinguished services, whether as judge of
the circuit court, or the court of appeals, he justly earned for himself
an honorable and enduring fame secured to none in the annals of the
commonwealth.
"That in him we recognize not only the accomplished jurist but also
the citizen without reproach, whose private life has been blameless, and
who public career has added another star to the constellation of our
country's honored names.
"That as younger members of the profession we pay a cordial tribute
to his memory for many acts of personal kindness and words of friendly
counsel. We accept the model which his life and character offer to us
in all their harmonious and just proportions, and along the pathway of
professional duty will turn to it and gather fresh encouragement and
inspiration."

WILLIAM RUPARD is the most prominent minister now laboring among the
churches of North District Association. He was born in Clark county,
Ky., Feb. 4, 1825. He was educated in the common schools of his native
county, commenced teaching, at the age of 18, and followed that
occupation about 12 years.
He made a profession of religion, about 1841, and was baptized
into the fellowship of Goshen church, by Thomas Boone. About 1851, he
commenced exercising in public prayer and exhortation, and was ordained
to the ministry, by Thomas Boone and James Edmonson, in 1852. He
immediately took charge of Log Lick and Liberty churches, for whose
benefit he had been ordained. In January, 1855, he moved to Scott
county, Illinois, where he labored in the ministry about a year, and
baptized a number of converts. In 1856, he was called back to Kentucky
to fill the place made vacant by the death of the venerable Thomas
Boone. He immediately took charge of Goshen, Lulbegrud, Liberty and
Cane Spring churches, all belonging to North District Association. To
these churches he has ministered, about 33 years. Lulbegrud has not
prospered; the other three have more than doubled their membership.
Besides the four churches named, Mr. Rupard has generally served two or
three others, preaching to them on week days. He has also traveled and
preached much in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. He was elected Clerk of
North District Association, in 1852, and generally served in that
capacity, till 1859. Since the latter date, he has acted as Moderator
of that Association.
Mr. Rupard is a man of high respectability and of spotless
christian character. He possesses fair preaching gifts, and has used
them with much zeal and diligence, and with a good degree of success.
It seems a pity that his fine talents and extensive influence should be
used against the cause of missions.

NINIAN RIDGEWAY appears to have been raised up to the ministry, in
Friendship church, in Clark county. He was ordained about 1818, in
which year he moved his membership to Old Goshen church. After
preaching here some four or five years, he moved to Missouri, and settled
within the bounds of Salem Association. It is known that he was among
the ministers of that body as late as 1830.

C. W. MOBLEY was born in Clarke [sic] County, Ky., February 25, 1821. His
father, Walter G., was a native of Maryland, born March 10, 1786, was a
carpenter by trade, went to Kentucky when a young man, where he met and
married Elizabeth Burton, a native of Fayette County, Ky., born in 1796.
In 1829 they moved to Washington County, Ind., and engaged in farming,
until their deaths, the former dying, March 16, 1876, his wife in 1880.
Our subject's early life was passed on his father's farm and attending the
schools of that day. He later learned the carpenter's trade and peddled
clocks and tinware, continuing until 1855, with the exception of one year,
when he was conductor on the L. N. A. & C. R. R. In 1855 he entered the
firm of Platt, Martin & Gordon of Salem as clerk. After four year's
service he bought out the firm. In 1863 he succeeded his former employer,
D. B. Platt, in the manufacturing of wagons and carriages. In 1865 he
established a foundary and machine-shop. In 1861 he married Mary Telle, a
native of Philadelphia, Penn. There are two children by this marriage -
Fannie and Charles W. Mr. Mobley's life has been one of great activity
and industry and irreproachable integrity. He is a Republican. Mrs.
Mobley was born July 30, 1834.

The Two Howard's creeks in Clark County derived their names from the
venerable John Howard, a well-known citizen of Kentucky, who died some
years ago in Fayette county. He was the father of the late Governor
Benjamin Howard, and of the first wife of Robert Wickliffe, Sen'r., Esq.
He held a pre-emption of one thousand acres of land at the mouth of each
of these creeks.

General RICHARD HICKMAN, a lieutenant governor of the State, and acting
governor during the absence of Governor Shelby in the campaign of 1813,
was also a citizen of this county. He was highly esteemed by his
countrymen for his intelligence and many virtues.

For half a century past, Henry Clay has been regarded in America, if
not throughout the entire political world, as the greatest of American
statesmen. With like unanimity did the entire art world, in 1874, concede
that JOEL T. HART was the greatest of sculptors, living or dead. If such
detrmination brings its own reward, then had he twice accomplished the
purpose of his life.
Mr. Hart was born in Kentucky, in 1810, in Clark county. His school
life was but three months long; but his desire to learn was not easily
limited, and of evenings he pored over books by the light of a wood fire.
He earned his subsistence by rough stone-work, particularly in building
chimneys and a few fences. In 1830, or by one account as late as 1835, he
removed to Lexington, and in a marble-yard made his first essay at
engraving letters on a tombstone. This was one advance towards imparting
shape and expression to marble. Little by little, as if working out an
unknown problem, Hart seemed to gain upon that undeveloped idea that was
moving him onward. Just then he met with Shobal Vail Clevenger, of
Cincinnati, a stonecutter like himself, whose first essay at sculpture was
in carving an angel upon a tombstone. Although two years younger than
Hart, he had seen more of art, and was fast developing the quiet genius
that even before his early death at sea in 1843, when only 32, gave him
name and fame and promise of fortune. He let a flood of light in upon the
hopeful mind of young Hart, who thus saw the world with new eyes, as it
had not appeared to him before. He was no longer a mere stone-mason, but
had bounded into the highest sphere of the mason's art; he was a sculptor.
He studied anatomy at the old Medical College in Lexington, as
indispensable to statuary exactness.
His first effort in the line of his new profession was a bust of a
young man of his own age, then fast rising into prominence, Cassius M.
Clay. This was true to life, and followed by busts of Andrew Jackson,
John J. Crittenden, and Henry Clay, which gave him popular appreciation at
once. The "Ladies' Clay Association," of Richmond, Va. in 1846,
commissioned him to execute a statue of Henry Clay. Upon the model of
this he spent three years, studying from life; he knew it would bring him
fame, and he admired the noble man. He went to Florence, Italy, in the
fall of 1849, to transfer his work to marble; for a year, waited for his
model, only to learn that it had been shipwrecked in the Bay of Biscay. A
duplicate model at home was sent for. Other delays occurred. Years
rolled on, and the great work - great in execution and in character - had
its last touches. It was shipped on Aug. 29, 1859, and set up in the
capitol grounds at Richmond. The city of New Orleans ordered a colossal
bronze statue of Mr. Clay; and the beautiful marble statue of him which
adorns the inner-rotunda of the court-house at Louisville was inaugurated
May 30, 1867.
During these years, Mr. Hart was not idle. The teeming imagery of
his brain brought life and beauty from the chisel and cold marble. The
marble ceased to be cold, and glowed with warmth and feeling and
intelligence. He has executed many portrait-busts - among them those of
Gen. Zachary Taylor, Col. Gregory, Robert Wickliffe, and duplicates of his
previous busts - some of them remarkable for a look of flesh, truthful in
expression, and seemingly almost inssinct [sic] with life.
But it is his ideal pieces which are most appreciated in the art
world, and excite the most thrilling emotions of the beautiful. His
"Angelina" and "Il Penseroso" cause bursts of enthusiasm at the very
sight. Another, is a figure of a child examining a flower, while she
holds, in her other hand, her apron full of flowers. But poetry and
sentiment and skill have combined in a master-piece that will live and be
known, as only one modern piece is known - the "Greek Slave" of his
celebrated compeer, Hiram Powers who had no petty jealousy to restrain him
from saying that "Hart is the best sculptor in the world." In 1866, this
piece ws called "Woman Triumphant," but since has been better known as the
"Triumph of Chastity." It is described, by a Kentuckian who saw in in
1871, as "a group of two figures only - a perfect woman and a charming
cupid. Love, in the shape of a bewitching cupid, has assailed the fair
one - has shot arrow after arrow, all of which are broken, and have fallen
at her feet. His quiver is exhausted, the last shaft has failed of the
mark, and this splendid woman has caught the barbed arrow, and with her
left hand has raised it above her head out of reach of the villanious
little tempter, who struggles hopelessly on tiptoe to regain it.
"The composition tells its own story. Virtue is assailed - reason is
brought to bear, and all attacks are harmless. It is, indeed, woman's
triumph - the triumph of chastity. Believing that his own countrywomen
are unsurpassed for loveliness and power, he has endeavored, and
successfully, to produce the highest, purest, and most captivating type of
the American woman.
"The art correspondent at Florence of the London Athenaeum - a paper
of recognized authority in art matters - said, in 1871, that he considered
it the finest work in existence; and that in 1868 he had begged Mr. Hart
to finish it at once, but he would not; each year it grew more beautiful,
and he now feared to urge its completion against the artist's better
judgment. Other art correspondents of London journals years ago
pronounced it the work of modern times, and other writers all agree as to
its perfection."
An art enthusiast has offered $15,000 for it, when completed in
marble (it is now only in pure clay); but the old Kentucky sculptor
thought, in 1874, he could yet add to to its beauty, although for nineteen
long years he had toned and tempered and modeled it. When chided by an
admiring friend for spending so many years upon one group, he said, with
an exalted faith in his art, "The Almighty does not see fit to make a
perfect woman in less than eighteen years, and can I hope to make a
perfect model in less?"
When he returned from Italy in 1860, for a year, the city of
Lexington received him with becoming respect and honor, and other places
showed him marked consideration. When the legislature of Kentucky, on
Jan. 23, 1860, appropriated $10,000 toward the completion of the Henry
Clay monument at Lexington, it was understood that the statue was to be
the handiwork of Mr. Hart. But part of the appropriation was used to pay
debts, and a stranger executed the statue. The legislature, on Feb. 5,
1874, appropriated $1,700 to purchase, from Mr. Hart's agent, busts of
Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, for the state-house at Frankfort. It would
redound to the good taste and honor of the State, if she would invite the
now aged sculptor to execute busts or statues of Daniel Boone, Simon
Kenton, George Rogers Clark, and Isaac Shelby, for four niches in the
rotunda of the state-house.

AUDLEY HAGGARD. In Clark County members of the Haggard family have been
prominent in agriculture and other affairs for several generations. The
home of Audley Haggard seven miles south of Winchester stands on the
highest elevation in the county, with a wide range of view, the lights
of the City of Richmond, county seat of Madison County, being within
vision at night. This farm was once owned by David Haggard, grandfather
of Frank Haggard, the attorney.
Henry Rider Haggard, the distinguished English novelist (who claims
"kin" with the Haggards of Clark County) is authority for the statement
that the Haggard family are descended from Andrew Ogard of Denmark, who
settled in County Norfolk, England, in the year 1433, was naturalized
there, and was knighted by King Henry VII. Though they have made no
effort to trace the connection the Haggards of Clark County are
certainly descended from this Sir Andrew Ogard, whose name was
anglicized into Haggard.
So far as is known the first Haggard to come to America was James
Haggard, who had been educated for the Episcopal ministry in England,
and came to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1698, being then not yet twenty-one
years old. He taught school in Norfolk for years and eventually married
one of his pupils, whose name has not descended. They had four sons,
Nathaniel, Edmund, Zachary and Gray. It is only with Nathaniel that
this sketch has to do.
Nathaniel Haggard was born November 21, 1723, and married Elizabeth
Gentry. They settled in Albemarle County, Virginia, and in 1788 they
went to Kentucky, settling three miles south of where Winchester now
stands and where George W. Haggard now lives, in the same house, which
is undoubtedly the oldest building of any kind in the county. Nathaniel
Haggard died August 21, 1820, at the ripe age of ninety-seven years. He
raised a family of seven sons and three daughters. All of his children
were born in Virginia, and some of them never settled in Clark County.
Those of them who did were : (1) John Haggard, born in 1754, married
Mary Shepherd. They settled about eight miles south of Winchester, and
raised four sons and four daughters - Pleasant, who married a Miss
Watts; Martin, who married Sallie Hampton; John, who married Rhoda
Quisenberry, daughter of Rev. James Quisenberry; David T., who married
Patsey Adams; Polly who married Minor Winn; Elizabeth, who married Joel
Quisenberry, son of Rev. James Quisenberry; Sallie who married Jessie
Hampton; and Nancy, who married David Reed. David T. Haggard was the
father of Judge Augustine I. Haggard and grandfather of Judge Rodney
Haggard. (2) Rev. James Haggard (Baptist minister) born 1759, married
Betsey Gentry, in 1790 settled in Clark County, but in 1816 removed to
Christian County, Kentucky. (3) Bartlett Haggard, born in 1763 married
Martha Dawson, and in 1788 they settled in Clark County, Kentucky. They
had two sons, Martin who married Elizabeth Dane, and Allen Dawson, who
married Frances Haggard, daughter of Pleasant Haggard. (4) David
Haggard, born in 1763, married Nancy Dawson, and in 1792 they settled in
Clark County, Kentucky, but in 1823 they removed to Trigg County,
Kentucky, and in 1836 to Bloomington, Illinois. Their daughter, Martha
Haggard, was born in Clark County in 1795, and married John Routt, of
the same county, and they went to Illinois. Their son, John L. Routt,
was several times governor of Colorado. Bartlett and David Haggard were
twins and married sisters (5) Nathan Haggard great-grandfather of Audley
Haggard born in 1765, married Elizabeth Hayes, and they settled in Clark
County in 1788. They had four sons and three daughters, as follows:
Martin, William, John, David, Polly (who married Spencer Holloway),
Nancy (who married James Hanson) and Eliza (who married Dennis Doyle.)
This family were all Baptists and most of them were members of
Providence Church at "the old stone meeting house."
At one time there were three David Haggards in Clark County, all
first cousins. One of them was David, the grandfather of Audley
Haggard. He was born July 28, 1812, and died December 14, 1880. His
home was three miles southwest of Winchester, at the present Jeff Tevis
farm, and he spent his last days there and was buried at Smithfield.
His wife was Temperance Hodgkin, born December 28, 1811, and died April
28, 1883. Of David and Temperance Haggard the children were: James P.,
who [is] in Shelby County; Samuel of Arkansas; Charles P. of Winchester;
Mildred, a twin sister of Charles P., who married Doctor Morris and
lived at Sulphur, Kentucky; Betty, who died in Henry County, the wife of
Paschal Maddox; and Barbara, who married John Austin and is deceased.
Charles P. Haggard, father of Audley Haggard, married for his first
wife, Edith Elkin, daughter of Enoch and Ann Polly (Quisenberry) Elkin.
Her mother was a daughter of Roger Quisenberry, who was born November
23, 1792, and died March 29, 1877, while his wife, Polly, was born
October 10, 1795, and died January 30, 1866. The old home of Enoch
Elkin is now owned by Joe Carroll of the Boonesboro Pike. A brother of
Edith Elkin was Doctor Elkin, who died at Louisville. None of the
Elkins remain in Clark County. Enoch Elkin, born January 30, 1803, died
at the age of sixty-one, on July 12, 1864. His first wife Ann P.
Quisenberry, was born April 24, 1814, and died January 8, 1878. They
were married February 17, 1831. The Elkins were one of the very wealthy
families of the county, and Enoch Elkin was a prominent dealer in mules
for many years. Edith Elkin died four years after her marriage, leaving
two sons, Audley and Morris. The latter is a farmer and merchant at
Somerset, Kentucky. Both these sons were reared by their stepmother,
who was one of the very best of women and a real mother to them.
Charles P. Haggard soon after his marriage moved to Monroe County,
Missouri, where his wife died. He then returned and became a partner of
Sam P. Hodgkin. About 1902 he
bought the farm now owned by his son Audley. This farm had been given
by another David Haggard to his daughter Frankie, who married Nathan
Lipscomb. Mrs. Lipscomb's daughter, Nannie May Lispscomb, became the
second wife of Charles P. Haggard. At the death of Mrs. Lipscomb the
farm was sold to Charles P. Haggard, his wife having an interest in it.
After three years of residence on the farm Charles P. Haggard moved to
Winchester, where his wife died the same year. At that time Charles
bought out the grocery business of his son Morris at Winchester, and is
still one of the active merchants of that city.
Audley Haggard's chief farm comprises a splendid property in the
Blue Grass section, and he also owns a half interest in the adjoining
farm.
On November 14, 1906, Audley Haggard married Sudie Ecton, a
daughter of Woody and Mollie (Allan) Ecton. The children of Audley
Haggard and wife are Morris Allan, Marion Elkin and Audley, Jr. Mr.
Haggard is an active member and a deacon of the Mount Olive Baptist
Church.

LOUIS P. FRYER, of Butler, is rounding out eighteen years of
consecutive years of consecutive service as judge of the Eighteenth
Judicial District. He has practiced law in Pendleton County thirty-six
years, and his abilities as a lawyer and his worth as a citizens have
brought him repeated honors in public affairs, so that his official
service has been almost continuous with his law practice.
Judge Fryer was born near Butler January 10, 1864, and four
generations of the family have lived in that community. His
great-grandfather was a native of Scotland and was the founder of the
family in Pendleton County, where he lived the life of a farmer.
William Fryer, grandfather of Judge Fryer, spent all his life in the
vicinity of Butler, and was likewise identified with agricultural
pursuits. John H. Fryer, father of Judge Fryer, was born near Butler in
1832, and after his marriage for twenty years lived at Falmouth, where
he earned a high reputation as a lawyer. He was a graduate of the law
department of the University of Michigan. From Falmouth he returned to
Butler, and lived on his farm there until his death in 1904. Originally
he was a democrat, but in later years affiliated with the republican
party. He was a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
John H. Fryer married Frances Norris, who lived all her life in
Pendleton County and was born and died near Butler. Of their children
Calvin, the oldest, is a farmer near Butler; Laura, living on her farm
near Butler, is the widow of Lafayette McClung, a printer for many years
and later a farmer; Louis P. was the third among the children; Alvin
died at the age of fifteen, and two others died in infancy.
Louis P. Fryer attended the public schools of Falmouth and Butler,
graduated from the Falmouth Academy in 1883, and pursued his law studies
in his father's office until his admission to the bar in 1885. Judge
Fryer kept his offices as an attorney at Falmouth from his admission to
the bar until January, 1904. He was admitted to the bar when twenty-one
years of age, and about that time was chosen police judge of Falmouth,
serving three terms. He was county attorney one term and commonwealth
attorney from 1897 to 1903. The valuable services he rendered in these
offices was an important factor in his elevation to the bench. Judge
Fryer began his first six year term as judge of the Eighteenth Judicial
District in January, 1904. He was re-elected in 1909 and agin in 1915.
This judicial district comprises the counties of Pendleton, Harrison,
Nicholas and Robertson. Judge Fryer has his offices and home in a very
beautiful residence just out of the corporate limits of Butler. The
house stands on an elevation and is surrounded by large and well kept
grounds.
Judge Fryer is a democrat in politics, a member of the Christian
Church, and is affiliated with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and
a member of the Kentucky State Bar Association. He gave an active and
helpful influence to the promotion of the success of all war drives in
Pendleton County. In July, 1918, at Lexington, Judge Fryer married Miss
Eva Bradford, a native of Cincinnati. Alvin died at the age of fifteen,
and two others died in infancy.

CHARLES H. DIETRICH--The subject of this sketch, now a citizen of
Winchester, Kentucky, is a native of the Buckeye state, having been born
in Fredericksburg, Wayne county, Ohio, September 19, 1849. His parents were
John J. N. Dietrich and Elizabeth (Boyer) Dietrich, both of whom were born
near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Jacob Dietrich, was a
soldier in the American army in the war of the Revolution. His
great-grandfather, a native of Germany, emigrated to America between 1745
and 1750 and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Dietrich's
father was a woollen manufacturer, a business which he followed for many
years, both in Pennsylvania and in Ohio, to which state he returned about
the year 1837.
Charles H. Dietrich was reared in Wayne county, attending the schools
of his native town and later those of Defiance, Ohio, to which city his
parents removed their home in their later years. Upon the organization in
1873 of the Ohio State University, of Columbus, Ohio, he entered it as a
student and graduated in 1878, in the first class of that now famous
institution. He had been engaged in teaching before he entered college and
resumed that work soon after his graduation. His health failing he joined
a party of prospectors in the winter of 1880 and went to New Mexico, where
he worked as a United States mineral surveyor until the close of the year
when he was engaged by the city school board of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to
organize and supervise the graded schools of that city. He entered upon
the work at once and continued in charge of the schools until June, 1895,
when he resigned to enter the service of the American Book Company, as
their representative in central and eastern Kentucky and this position he
still holds. Mr. Dietrich has for many years been connected with the
Masonic fraternity in Lodge, Chapter, and Commandery, and has been honored
by the order by election to office frequently.
Mr. Dietrich acknowledged the worth and charm of Kentucky's daughters
by marrying one of them--Miss Minnie R. Lander, daughter of Wilson J.
Lander, of Hopkinsville. She became his wife November 28, 1883. She has
made his home the ideal "Old Kentucky Home." They have been blessed with
five children, Karl, Ruth, Lois, Aime, and Neil; and theirs have been
busy and useful lives such as lead to the establishment and maintenance
of American life and the American nation.

CAPT. JEREMIAH E. DEAN, a veteran of the Mexican and late Civil wars, was
born in Clark County, Ky., October 25, 1821 and is one of five children
born to James and Mary (Campbell) Dean. When a small lad he went to
Marion County, Indiana, making that his home until about fourteen years
old, when he moved to Orange County, Indiana to live with an uncle. Until
attaining his majority he worked on a farm, then worked two years in a
grist mill at Lawrenceport, Lawrence Co., Ind., after which he moved to
Bedford. May 7, 1847, he enlisted in Company I, Sixteenth Regiment of of
the United States Infantry, served in the Mexican War until he was
honorably discharged at Newport, KY., July 28, 1848. May 24, 1849, Mary A.
Owens became his wife, shortly after which he moved to Springville, Ind.,
where for over twenty years he was engaged in blacksmithing. June 7,
1861, he enlisted in Company F, Fifteenth Indiana Volunteers, a position
he held until after the battle of Stone River, when he was advanced to the
Captaincy of his company. Besides various skirmishes in which he was
engaged he was an active participant in the battles of Shiloh, Stone
River, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge. Mr. Dean is a member of the Blue
Lodge in Masonry, is a Republican in politics, and in 1876 was elected
Auditor of Lawrence County, serving as such four years. He is at present
engaged in the hardware trade. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dean are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and the following named of their ten children
are yet living: Samuel M., Sarach C., D. J., Amanda L., Harriet C. and
Jeremiah H.

JOHN C. MASON DAY is well known in business circles throughout the state
for succeeding in all of his undertakings. He and his brothers inherited
large tracts of timber land, but instead of becoming what is known as
"land poor" as so many who did the same have become, Mr. Day has emerged a
wealthy and influential citizen. The business methods by which he has done
this can not fail to interest the commercial world.
Mr. Day was born June 3, 1859, the son of William Day, who was born in
Morgan county, Kentucky, August 21, 1821, and who died in Breathitt county,
January 28, 1884; the mother of our subject, Phoebe Elleanor Gibbs, was
born in Breathitt county, January 30, 1825, and died June 11, 1862. The
grandfather was Jesse Day, born at New River, Virginia, January 13, 1802,
and he died in Morgan county, Kentucky, April 21, 1883. His wife, Margaret
Caskey, was born in Morgan county, Kentucky, May 11, 1802, and died in the
same county in 1884. The Caskeys were of Huguenot origin. They came to
Kentucky from New York in wagons, settling first on Flat Creek, near Mt.
Sterling, in Montgomery county, but moving shortly afterward to Morgan
county, where they located on the Licking river one and one-half miles from
West Liberty. The first of the name in Kentucky had run away from his
uncle John to whom he was apprenticed in New York, and tried to join the
Revolutionary army when only twelve years old, but was promptly returned to
his proud but worried uncle.
When Washington was first inaugurated Margaret Caskey's mother took
part in the celebration as a flower girl. She and her mother called on
Lady Washington. Owing to the straitened times existing after the
Revolution, they had little finery in which to adorn themselves, and when
telling about it years after, would never fail to describe the pride which
prompted, and the difficulty which met her mother in her efforts to make up
their homemade silk dresses so as to make a worthy appearance. Another
point in the story, as she was accustomed to tell it, was that when they
were ushered into the august presence of the first lady of the land, she
was quietly knitting in the corner by the fire-place and continued to knit
during the whole of the call. They brought with them over the mountains
china and utensils rarely found in the back woods at that time, some of
which are still preserved with pride by the family, our subject owning a
beautiful old fashioned teapot.
Mr. Day's great-grandfather, John Day, was born June 28, 1760, in
Lunenburg county, Virginia, and died on July 16, 1837, in Morgan county,
Kentucky. He served throughout the Revolution, enlisting first in October,
1776, when only sixteen years of age, and being mustered out for the last
time in September, 1781. He served under Colonels Joseph Cloyd, William
Preston and others and took part in a number of engagements with the
British and Torys in his section. The last three years he served as spy
or Indian ranger, which speaks well for the woodcraft and discretion
possessed by a boy of nineteen. Before the Revolution his family suffered,
on one of the inroads of the Shawnee Indians, a terrible massacre, several
of them being killed or captured. This made such an impression that the
story has been handed down to the present day generation. The wife of this
Revolutionary hero, named Rebecca Howe, was a woman of great force of
character. She was born October 11, 1765, in Pennsylvania, and died March
17, 1856, while a resident of Morgan county, Kentucky.
Our subject's maternal grandfather was Nathan Gibbs, born October 12,
1793, in Burke county, North Carolina, and died November 12, 1882. His
wife was Jane Lipps, born August 14, 1797, and died April 24, 1867. John
Gibbs, the father of Nathan, was born in South Carolina March 3, 1755, and
died March 15, 1847, a resident of Breathitt county, Kentucky. While living
in Burke county, North Carolina, in 1780, he enlisted in the Revolution and
served three months under Capt. Clark; and in 1781 he was again called out
and served several months under Capt. John Couley. John Gibbs was a member
of the Legislature of North Carolina during the Revolutionary war and came
to Kentucky over the Cumberland Gap road bringing his household effects on
pack horses. His wife, Hannah Muchmore, was a cousin of Daniel Boone, and
was born February 8, 1757, and died March 17, 1850.
All of Mr. Day's ancestors above noted were farmers and leading men in
their time and section. William, his father, was reared on a farm in
Morgan county, and educated at private schools. He married on the 18th of
June, 1844, and bought land, most of which was virgin forest. Here he
lived and followed farming until his death, at which time he owned ten
thousand acres of timber land. In 1859 he was elected to the legislature
of his state on the Democratic ticket and served one term. He did not
enlist in the war but kept horses and pilots on his place and would send
parties who wished to get through to join the Confederate army safely
across the mountains into Virginia and Tennessee, where they could achieve
their purposes.
Mr. Day was a merchant also and his store and firm was destroyed and
robbed several times by Northern troops and sympathizers, on which account
he was obliged to leave the country and did not dare return until 1866,
after the war was ended. He was successful in whatever he undertook,
farming, stock-raising, merchandising, and lumbering. He had nine
children: Nathan B., J. Taylor, Margaret, Nancy Jane, Lucinda Caroline,
Mary Elizabeth, Floyd, John C.M., and William. J. Taylor, FLoyd, John
C.M., and William are living. On April 16, 1863, William Day married for
the second time, Lourana Cope, the daughter of James D. Cope, and left
one child, Lewella, the wife of James Hargis of Jackson, Kentucky.
John C. M. Day was reared in Breathitt county, and received his early
education in the common schools and later attended the Cumberland College
in Virginia. Upon reaching his majority he entered his father's store
for four years, at the end of which time he sold out and went to Jackson,
the county seat, and started the firm of Day Bros. & Co., a general
merchandise store in which he and his brother Floyd are still interested,
and in which they have build up a business of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year. Mr. Day and his brother Floyd own three lumber
mills, one in Breathitt county, one at Clay City, and one at Beattyville.
They also own ten thousand acres of timber, coal and farm lands. They
have built twelve miles of railroad from Natural Bridge to Campton,
Kentucky, through some of the roughest country in the world, and will
extend it soon to Hazel Green, Kentucky; this is the Mountain Central
Railroad of which Mr. Day is vice president and general manager. On
January 1, 1899, he started the wholesale grocery firm of White & Day in
Winchester, Kentucky, eighteen months later he bought out White then bought
out Pearson & Clark, wholesale grocers of Lexington, Kentucky, moved his
Winchester stock to Lexington, combined the two stores and later sold his
interest to W. J. Goodwin of Bryan, Goodwin & Hunt.
Mr. Day married on January 30, 1887, Margaret McLin, who was born at
Rose Hill, Virginia, November 22, 1865. She was the daughter of Capt. John
Blair and Mary (Bales) McLin. Capt. McLin was born at Jonesboro,
Tennessee, May 1, 1833, and died July 14, 1910, in Virginia. He enlisted
in Captain Tip Willet's Company in the 19th Tennessee Infantry in the Civil
war and became captain before its close. He married on December 15, 1864,
Mary E. Bales, who was born in Lee county, Virginia, a daughter of R. M.
Bales, who is one of the best families of this section, and she survives
him, residing at Rose Hill, Virginia. Capt. McLin was a ruling elder in
Mt. Carmel Presbyterian church for years and superintendent of the Sunday
school for twenty-five years. His early life was spent at Jonesboro,
Tennessee, as a clerk in a store, and at the close of the war he became a
merchant and farmer, in which occupations he spent the remainder of his
life. In 1883-84 he served a term in the Virginia Legislature.
To Mr. and Mrs. John C. M. Day have been born four children, William,
Mary Eleanor, Kelly, and Catherine, all still young enough to remain at
home. They own a beautiful home in Winchester, where they are highly
respected by all who know them. Mr. Day has been fortunate in always
being able to secure the esteem and admiration of his numerous employees.
He is recognized as one of the leading spirits in commercial and business
circles but is never so busy that he can not grant to those who seek him
the courtesy of an interview. Success in business has not changed his
kindly nature but made him a broad minded man of kindly spirit and genial
temperament. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of
which he is also a ruling elder.
Mr. Day is the proud owner of a fine collection of guns and hunting
implements, and one of his chief delights is to run away from business
worries once each year to the wild woods, where for a few weeks he follows
the delights of hunting, the love of which has been bred into him by a
long line of ancestors skilled in the craft.

BENJAMIN A. CRUTCHER, who in the general practice of law has built up an
extensive patronage indicative of his comprehensive knowledge of the
principles of jurisprudence and his correct adaptation thereof to the
points in litigation, has been numbered among the members of the bar since
1884. He is at present commonwealth attorney, residing in Winchester,
Kentucky.
Mr. Crutcher was born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, June 21, 1856,
the son of Thomas B. and Sarah (Price) Crutcher. His father was born in
Jefferson county, Kentucky, February 14, 1831, and died in Jessamine
county, Kentucky, at the age of seventy-two years. His mother was born at
Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, February 21, 1831 and is still living
at Nicholasville, Kentucky. They were the parents of seven children,
of whom six are living: John A., living in Louisville, Kentucky; Benjamin
A.; Lizzie, in Nicholasville; Sallie, deceased; Carrie, Thomas B. and
Fannie, the last three living in Nicholasville. Our subject's grandfather,
Norvill Crutcher, and his wife, Sarah (Pollock) Crutcher, were natives
of Virginia and of Welsh descent. They came to Jessamine county, Kentucky,
when our subject's father was a boy, having previously lived in Jefferson
county. Thomas B. Crutcher, the father, was given a common school
education and for fifty years he was in the mercantile business in
Nicholasville. He was police judge and served on the city council for a
number of years and was an active member of the Baptist church. He took a
great interest in educational work and was president of the Jessamine
Female Institute and promoted Bethel Academy and family combined the two
schools into one.
Mr. Benjamin A. Crutcher was reared in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where
he began his education by attending the common and graded schools, and
continued by his taking a literary course at William Jewell College, at
Liberty, Ohio, from which he returned home. While working in his father's
store, he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and immediately
began the practice of his profession. Mr. Crutcher was elected county
attorney and served one term, then was re-elected and served until he was
elected commonwealth attorney in 1892, when he resigned the office of the
county attorney. At the first election he had some opposition, but since
then he has had none, and as he is serving his fourth term, the completion
of the present one will make twenty-four years in all. In 1907 Mr.
Crutcher removed to Clark county and purchased a farm of one hundred and
fifty acres on the Paris Pike, where he resided until the spring of 1910,
when he removed to Winchester. His district is composed of Clark,
Jessamine, Madison and Powell counties.
Mr. Crutcher married, in 1879, Cora Ogden, a native of Winchester,
Kentucky, who died in 1889 at the age of thirty years. She was a daughter
of James and Mary (Baldwin) Ogden. Three children were born of this
union: Mary, at home; James O., of Winchester; and Allan, at home. Mr.
Crutcher's second marriage occurred on November 24, 1892, to Emma Hedges,
who was born in Circleville, Ohio, December 12, 1858, a daughter of
Joshua Hedges, of Pickaway county, Ohio. One child has been born to this
union, William, who is at home. Mr. Crutcher is a member of the fraternal
orders of Masons, Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, being connected
with these orders in Nicholasville and with the Elks in Winchester. He
and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church South. Mr.
Crutcher in politics has been a life-long Democrat, and, keeping well
informed on the questions and issues of the day, is able to support his
position by intelligent argument. He takes an active interest in
community affairs and has been influential in the ranks of his party,
doing all in his power to promote its growth and secure its success. His
is a well rounded character, in which the varied interests of citizenship,
of professional service, home and social life have received due attention.
He is a well read man, has a host of friends, and is all relations he has
commanded the esteem of those with whom he has come in contact, while the
community interests have benefited by his co-operation and practical labor.

Among the most distinguished citizens of Clark county was the Hon. JAMES
CLARKE, late governor of the commonwealth. Our materials for a sketch of
his life are exceedingly meagre [sic], and we can attempt nothing more
than a bare ennumeration of the most prominent incidents in his career.
He was the son of Robert and Susan Clarke, and was born in 1779, in
Bedford county, Virginia, near the celebrated Peaks of Otter. His
father emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky at a very early period, and
settled in Clark county, near the Kentucky river. The subject of this
notice received the principal part of his education under Dr. Blythe,
afterwards a professor in Transylvania university. He studied law with
his brother, Christian Clarke, a very distinguished lawyer of Virginia.
When he had qualifed himself to discharge the duties of his profession,
he returned to Kentucky, and commenced the practice of the law in
Winchester, in 1797.
He remained here, however, but a short time, before he set out in
search of a more eligible situation, and traveled through what was then
the far west, taking Vincennes and St. Louis in his route; but failing
to find a place to suit his views, he returned to Winchester, where, by
his unremitting attention to business, and striking displays of
professional ability, he soon obtained an extensive and lucrative
practice.
At this period of his life, he was several times elected a member
of the State legislature, in which body he soon attained a high and
influential position. In 1810, he was appointed a judge of the court of
appeals, and acted in that capacity for about two years. In 1812, he
was elected to congress, and served from the 4th of March, 1814, until
March, 1816. In 1817 he received an appointment as judge of the circuit
court, for the judicial district in which he resided, which station he
filled with great ability, and to the general satisfaction of the
public, till the year 1824, when he resigned. During his term of
service as judge, occurred that great and exciting struggle betwen the
relief and anti-relief parties, which has left its traces on the
political and social condition of Kentucky, in deep and indelible
characters, to be seen even at the present day. In May, 1823, Mr. Clarke
rendered an opinion in the Bourbon circuit court, in which he decided
that the relief laws were unconstitutional. This decision produced
great excitement, and was the cause of his being arraigned and impeached
before the legislature. But, notwithstanding the temporary
dissatisfaction it excited in the breasts of the relief party, there was
probably no act of his life which inspired his fellow citizens with
greater confidence in his integrity, firmness, independence, and
patriotism, than this decision. It was given just before the election,
and he must have forseen a temporary injury it would inflict upon the
party with which he acted, and which he regarded as the bulwark of the
constitution. But his was a nature which knew not the possibility of
making a compromise between his principles and policy.
In 1825, he was elected to congress to fill the vacancy occasioned
by Mr. Clay's appointment as secretary of state, and continued to
represent the Fayette district in that body until 1831. In 1832, he was
elected to the senate of Kentucky, and was chosen speaker in the place
of Mr. Morehead, who was then acting as governor, in the place of
Governor Breathitt, deceased. He was elected governor of Kentucky, in
August, 1836, and died on the 27th of August, 1839, in his sixtieth
year.
Governor Clarke was endowed by nature with great strength of mind,
and a fine vein of original wit. His literary attainments were
respectable, ranking in that respect with most of his contemporaries of
the legal profession at that day. A fine person, a cheerful and social
disposition, an easy address, and fascinating manners, made him the life
of every circle in which he mingled. He was full of fun, fond of
anectdotes, and could tell a story with imimitable grace. To these
qualities, so well calculated to display the amiable traits of his
character in their most attractive light, he added all those stern and
manly virtues which inspire confidence and command respect. His death
made a vacancy in the political and social circles of Kentucky, which
was very sensibly felt and universally deplored.

JAMES CLARK, one of the judges of the court of appeals and governor of
Kentucky, was born near the Peaks of Otter, in Virginia, in 1779. His
father emigrated to Kentucky and settled near Kentucky river, in Clark
county. He was educated under the supervision of Dr. Blythe, afterward
a professor in Transylvania University, studied law with his brother,
Christian Clark, a distinguished lawyer of Virginia, and returned to
practice at Winchester, Kentucky, in 1797. He was a member of the
legislature in 1807 and 1808, and was appointed judge of the court of
appeals March 29, 1810, but resigned after two years' service. He was
elected to congress from his district, serving from 1813 to 1816, when he
resigned to accept the office of circuit judge, and while serving in this
position in 1822 his decision in the case of Williams versus Blair,
wherein he declared certain laws intended as stay laws for the benefit
of debtors to be unconstitutional, caused such dissatisfaction as to
call forth from the legislature, convened in extra session, a resolution
of condemnation. The committee appointed to inquire into the decision of
the judge, on the 21st of May, 1822, reported as follows: "The principles
and doctrines assumed in this opinion are incompatible with the
constitutional powers of the legislative department of the government,
subversive of the best interests of the people and calculated in their
consequences to disturb the tranquility of the country and to shake public
confidence in the institutions and measures of the government, called for
by the conditions and necessities of the people." Five hundred copies
of the report were ordered printed, and Judge Clark was summoned to appear
before the house and answer to the charge.
On the 27th of May, 1822, Judge Clark made answer in writing, as
follows:
"In pronouncing a law that is incompatible with the constitution
void, the judiciary does not assume a superiority over the legislature.
It merely affirms the paramount obligation of the fundamental rule.
It announces only that the will of the people, as expressed in their
constitution, is above the will of any of the servants of the people.
The decision was given after the most mature deliberation which I was
able to bestow and from a firm conviction of the principles there
mentioned, and I must have been not only faithless to my conscience,
but to the constitution of the United States and the dignity due the
judicial office had I expressed any other opinion."
The reply was altogether manly but did not avert or appease
legislative wrath. The legislature invoked the remedy of address to
remove the judge from the bench, but the lack of a two-thirds majority
caused the proceedings to fail. In October, 1823, the case of Williams
versus Blair was sustained as decided by Judge Clark in the court of
appeals and transferred from the circuit judge to the higher court the
rage of the legislature, and they attempted to legislate the court of
appeals out of office, thus inaugurating the contest of the old and
new court.
Judge Clark was elected to congress, serving from 1825 to 1831, and
in 1836 he was elected governor, dying while in office, September 27,
1839. He was a lawyer of fine capacity and undoubted integrity, of fair
literary attainments, for his day, of fine appearance, ready wit, lively
disposition and easy address. To the lighter graces he added all the
sterner and manly virtues that inspire confidence and command respect.

WILLIAM J. BARBEE was born in Winchester, Kentucky, July 14th, 1816. He
was educated at Miama [sic] University, Oxford, Ohio. He studied medicine
with Dr. Drake in Cincinnati, and took the degree of M. D. in 1836. He
practiced for ten years, and then turned his attention to teaching, and
has since been president of two colleges. He was baptized in Cincinnati,
by Bro. James Challen, in 1840. In 1844 he commenced preaching.

During the four score years of his ministry, he has labored chiefly in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. He preached for the church at
San Antonio till recently, when he removed to Ash Grove, Missouri, where
he now resides. Dr. Barbee has given attention to several departments of
natural science, and is known to many as the author of an elementary work
on geology, and of a treatise on the cotton question. He has for
twenty-five years been a contributor to numerous journals, literary,
scientific, and religious.

THOMAS S. ALLAN, a prominent physician at Allanville, Clark County,
KY., was born in that county, October 20, 1857. His father, Francis S.
Allan, a native of Clark County, was born April 19,1821, and was a farmer
and miller. In politics he affiliated with the Democrats. He served as
magistrate for sixteen years, was County Judge eight years, which office
he held at the time of his death; he was a Royal Arch Mason, a member of
Pineham Lodge No.444, and also a member of Winchester Chapter, No.12, and
a representative to the Grand Lodge; he died July 5, 1882. He married
Elizabeth Haggard, of Clark County, daughter of Pleasant and Mary (Watts)
Haggard, natives of Clark and Fayette Counties, respectively. Seven
children were born to them, of whom our subject is the youngest. Lewis
Allan, grandfather of Thomas S., was a native of Virginia and an early
settler of Clark County, Ky., who died in Hartsville, Tenn. Thomas S.
Allan was reared on the farm until seventeen years of age, then removed
with his parents to Winchester, where he was educated. He began reading
medicine in 1879 with Dr. Hubbard Taylor, of Winchester, and in February,
1882, he graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville,
when he began practice at his present location. He is a member of the
State Medical Society and also of the Clark County Medical Society.
November 25, 1885, he married Miss Lee Haggard, of Clark County, daughter
of A. S. and Sarah (Reed) Haggard, of Kentucky. One daughter has blessed
their union, Mary L., born September 18, 1886. Mr. Allan owns a farm of
200 acres, which he manages in connection with his practice. The Doctor
is a member of the Baptist Church.

JUDGE FRANK ALLAN, of Allanville, was a widely known and prominent
citizen of Clark County, and for eight years, until his death, performed
the duties of the office of county judge with singular fidelity and
efficiency.
Judge Allan, who died in 1882, at the age of sixty-two, was a son
of Lewis and Sophia Allan. He married Elizabeth Haggard, a daughter of
Pleasant Haggard. Frank Allan located at Allanville, which then
contained a grist and saw mill, a carding factory, store, blacksmith
shop and postoffice, and became an extensive farmer in that locality.
He remained there until elected to the office of county judge, when he
removed to Winchester, and had filled that office for eight years before
his death. His widow then returned to the old farm at Allanville, and
remained at the old home until her death three years later.
There were seven children in the family of Judge Frank Allan and
wife: James, a merchant at Allanville, who died at the age of fifty
years; Pleasant, who was a farmer and died at the age of seventy;
Sophia, who died in Allanville at he age of twenty-three, the wife of
Sam Dethridge; Mollie, who became the wife of Woody Ecton and was the
mother of Mrs. Audley Haggard; John, a resident of Winchester; Bettie,
who died young, after her marriage to Allen Hampton; and Sidney, who
practiced medicine at the old home at Allanville and died in middle
life.
Mollie Allan, who was married at the age of twenty-one, secured a
portion of the old Allan farm where Wood Ecton spent his active life.
Woody Ecton died at Winchester June 22, 1903. They had three children:
Frank Allan Ecton, living near Allanville; Effie Ward, who died in
Childhood; and Sudie, Mrs. Audley Haggard.

The HON. CHILTON ALLAN, who for many years served as representative in
congress from Kentucky, with a high reputation for ability and
efficiency, is a citizen of this county. he is a profound lawyer, a
statesman of englarged and libral views, a sound politician, a devoted
patriot, and a man of remarkably pure and elevated moral character.

REV. JOHN G. ADAMS, a native of Clark County, Ky., was born September 8,
1827. His father, John Adams, a native of Culpeper County Va.,
was born in 1775, emigrated to Kentucky, where he first settled in Clark
County, removed to Madison, then to Estill County, and finally settled
permanently in Clark County; he was a farmer by occupation and was a mem-
ber of the Calvinistic Baptist Church seventy-five years. He married
Elizabeth Parrish, a native of Madison County, Ky., daughter of William
Parrish, a native of Virginia. She bore him seven sons and two daughters,
the subject of this sketch being the eighth child. Mrs. Adams died in
1860, having been a consistent member of the Calvinistic Baptist Church
for forty-five years. John Adams died at the age of ninety-eight; nine
months and seven days. Elkany Adams, grandfather of John G., a native
of Virginia, settled in Clark County, Ky., where he died shortly after
his arrival. He was one of those who fought for America's Independence.
The maternal grandfather of our subject was an early settler of Madison
County, Ky. John G. Adams was reared on the farm, the pursuits of which
he followed until nineteen years of age, when be worked for a time at
the sawmill business; he then apprenticed himself to learn the black-
smith trade with Robert W. Langley, of Dry Fork (said Langley after
removed to Texas). He successfully engaged in his trade for eighteen
years, when he began farming and preaching. He engaged in minis-
terial work in 1863, his pastoral labor being confined chiefly to
Clark,Powell, Estill and Madison counties. He settled on his pre-
sent location about 1857, where he owns 378 acres of land, in two
tracts, all well improved, which he successfully manages. June 21,
1849, he married Miss Millie Rucker, of Clark County, daughter of
Reuben and Margaret (Hardin) Rucker, natives, respectively, of Vir-
ginia and Clark County, Ky. Twelve children have been born to their
union, viz: Sarah M., Mary E., Lucy J., Telitha F., Nancy B., Emma,
James T., Reuben A., Sallie, Esther, Millie J., and Fielding. Lucy J.
is deceased. Politically Mr. Adams is Democrat. He has been a mem-
ber of the Christian Church since I 862. He has attained the third
degree in the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Adams has been a member of
the Christian Church for forty years.